Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president
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| Original title | Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Andrew Thorndike |
| script | Andrew Thorndike, Otto winemaker |
| production | DEFA Studio for newsreels and documentaries |
| music | Hanns Eisler |
| camera | Erwin Anders , Harry Bremer , Walter Fehmder , Götz Neumann , Erich Nitzschmann , Kurt Stanke |
| cut | Ella Ensink |
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Feodor Pappe : Commentator | |
Wilhelm Pieck - The Life of Our President is a documentary film made by the GDR film production company DEFA about the life of Wilhelm Pieck , the then President of the GDR. It ran on January 2, 1952 in the cinemas of the GDR and East Berlin. The film consists largely of commented still images from Pieck's life as well as from contemporary German history at the time. There are only a few moving film scenes, such as the funeral of Lenin and the period after 1945.
criticism
According to the SED central organ Neues Deutschland , the film had “outstanding success” and the cinemas were sold out. Der Spiegel certified that the film “portrayed the last fifty years and interpreted them in a Marxist way”.
Awards
Wilhelm Pieck - The Life of Our President was the opening film of the week of German films in Czechoslovakia in 1952 . Director and author Andrew Thorndike received the GDR III National Prize for the film . Class.
Web links
- Wilhelm Pieck - The life of our president in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ New Germany of January 4, 1952
- ^ At 1 a.m. on Lenin , DER SPIEGEL of January 9, 1952
- ^ DEFA chronicle for 1952 on the DEFA Foundation website